This is something I’ve been struggling a lot with. So let me preface this. I’ve come to the conclusion that there is nothing inherent about one’s biological sex that determines personality. Whether you have XX or XY chromosomes (or other, in the case of some genetic disorders) is not a factor that contributes to personality one but. Any notion that one has that acting a certain way is “feminine” and acting a certain way is “masculine” is just stupid crap made up by society. I know a lot of people say that gender is the way that you “feel” in your head, but how can you “feel” like your personality makes you a certain gender/sex if you’re not basing your ideas of what being that gender/sex means off of society’s sexist norms? Doesn’t that make any kind of “gender identity” inherently sexist? Honestly, it makes me sad when a transgender woman (male -> female) grows long hair, wears dresses, wears high heels, etc. Those aren’t things that are innate in woman. Those are things the patriarchy told us we should have to be normal. But it couldn’t just have something to do with genitalia! Not all transgender people have their genitalia altered. But then why would a transgender person consider themselves a different gender? The idea that “women act this way” and “men act this way” is sexist no matter how you look at it. From a legal standpoint, I can see why you would only be considered transitioned to the opposite sex once you’ve had surgery because there are hormones involved, so even though your chromosomes are the same, you’re body is different which means it has to be treated differently in medical situations. And medical situations are the only situation in which I can see sex/gender being significant. Which is why I don’t understand why some people who aren’t even intersex identify as a third gender. Gender doesn’t matter anyway so why would you not just say “I’m male/female” because the only way sex/gender matters is with medical stuff and that’s based off biological sex. So if transgender people identify with the gender that they do because they feel like they are that gender based on something to do with personality, emotions, etc, does this mean that transexuality, if not just for genitalia modification, is sexist? Full disclosure, I don’t think transexuality is weird. I don’t have any problem with people being transgender, it just seems like dying your hair. But it seems to be based on society’s sexist ideals. And if it matters, I’m bio-female, pansexual (pretty sure, might lean closer to the lesbian side). So based on all this, this is the question I want the whoever answers this to ruminate on – Would transgender people exist in a post-gender society? (Which I do think we’ll reach one day. If the Catholic/Protestant divide can become as insignificant as it is now compared to a few hundred years ago, at least in the Anglophone world excluding Northern Ireland, we can get past race, sex, sexuality, and every other immutable human trait.)